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classification Animalia Araneae Salticidae
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="6" pageNumber="115">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Figs 1, 16-17, 20-28
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aelurillus</taxonomicName>
sp. 1:
<bibRefCitation pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Komnenov 2006</bibRefCitation>
: 302
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Lazarov, S" journalOrPublisher="Acta Zoologica Bulgarica" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="145 - 152" title="Spiders (Araneae) from Maquises in south-west Bulgaria - Part I." volume="57" year="2005">Lazarov 2005</bibRefCitation>
: 151, Tab. 1 (in part).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
Holotype: ♂ (IZSB) BULGARIA, Blagoevgrad Province, Strouma Valley, 2 km S of Kamenitsa, 170-240 m a.s.l.,
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,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="23.15">23°09'E</geoCoordinate>
, soil traps, 28 September - 2 February 2002, coll. M. Langourov &amp; S. P. Lazarov. Paratypes: MACEDONIA: 1 ♂ (ISEA 000.472) Skopje,
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[=Radishani],
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="42.066666">42°04'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="21.45">21°27'E</geoCoordinate>
, 3 September 1995, coll. M. Komnenov. BULGARIA: 4 ♂ (IZSB) Blagoevgrad Province, Strouma Valley, FM 71, 2 km S of Kamenitsa, 170-240 m a.s.l.,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="41.616665">41°37'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="23.15">23°09'E</geoCoordinate>
, soil traps, 28 September - 2 February 2002, coll. M. Langourov &amp; S. Lazarov. AZERBAIJAN: 1 ♂ (MMUM) 60 km SW of Baku [=
<normalizedToken originalValue="Bakı">Baki</normalizedToken>
], Gobustan [=Qobustan], Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape,
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="40.083332">40°05'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="49.4">49°24'E</geoCoordinate>
, 7.05.1989, coll. P. M. Dunin.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
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sp. n. belongs to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
-group and is closely related to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus alboclypeus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alboclypeus">Aelurillus alboclypeus</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus guecki" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guecki">Aelurillus guecki</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus steinmetzi" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="steinmetzi">Aelurillus steinmetzi</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
; it also shares the same colour pattern on the eye field (Fig. 20) with
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus alboclypeus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alboclypeus">Aelurillus alboclypeus</taxonomicName>
sp. n. (Fig. 2) and
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Metzner, H" journalOrPublisher="Andrias" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="1 - 279" title="Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands." volume="14" year="1999">Metzner 1999</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 40 a), but differs from other species of this group which have
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shape (or its modification) on eye field; the clypeal pattern (a narrow stripe of white hairs under anterior median eyes, Fig. 28), difference in size and shape of the lateral tibial apophysis (Fig. 22, cf.
<bibRefCitation author="Proszynski, J" journalOrPublisher="Annales zoologici Warszawa" pageId="11" pageNumber="120" pagination="227 - 255" title="Notes on systematics of Salticidae (Arachnida, Aranei). I-VI." volume="28" year="1971">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Prószyński">Proszynski</normalizedToken>
1971
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: see fig. 18 for
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), and in the structure of the embolic division where the embolus and TA are more curved pro- and retro-laterally, and the apical part of TA is simple, without lateral expansions (Figs 24-27), whereas the apical part of TA of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
is more complicated and laterally expanded, (
<bibRefCitation author="Metzner, H" journalOrPublisher="Andrias" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="1 - 279" title="Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands." volume="14" year="1999">Metzner 1999</bibRefCitation>
: see fig. 43 f), apical part of TA of
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sp. n. with small tooth (Fig. 8), apical part of TA of
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and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus steinmetzi" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="steinmetzi">Aelurillus steinmetzi</taxonomicName>
are pointed apically (
<bibRefCitation author="Metzner, H" journalOrPublisher="Andrias" pageId="10" pageNumber="119" pagination="1 - 279" title="Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands." volume="14" year="1999">Metzner 1999</bibRefCitation>
: figs. 43 h-i) while apical part of TA of
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sp. n. pointed perpendicular to embolus (Fig. 25).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
Figures 20-28.
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus deltshevi" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deltshevi">Aelurillus deltshevi</taxonomicName>
sp. n.: 20 male, body pattern 21 left palp, ventral view 22 ditto, retrolateral view 23 palpal femur, prolateral view 24 embolic division, ventral view 25 ditto, prolateral view 26 ditto, retrolateral view 27 embolic division, ventral view 28 male face;. Scale bars - 0.1 mm (21-22, 24-27), 0.5 mm (23); 1 mm (20).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="115" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">This species is named after Prof. Christo Deltshev, the well-known Bulgarian arachnologist.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="115" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
Male (Paratype, from Bulgaria): Carapace 2.8 long, 2.0 wide, 1.6 high at PLE. Ocular area 1.1 long, 1.55 wide anteriorly and 1.55 wide posteriorly. Diameter of AME 0.45. Abdomen 1.3 long, 1.2 wide. Cheliceral length 1.0. Clypeal height 0.3. Length of leg segments: I 1.4+0.7+0.9+0.65+0.55; II 1.5+0.9+0.9+0.6+0.6; III 1.9+0.9+1.4+1.3+0.65; IV 1.9+0.8+1.3+1.5+0.8. Leg spination: I: Fm d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
5; Pt pr and rt 1; Tb pr 1-2, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
2 ap; Mt pr and rt 1-1, v 2-2 ap. II: Fm d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="2">-2-</normalizedToken>
5; Pt pr and rt 1; Tb pr 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
1, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
2 ap; Mt pr and rt 1-1, v 2-2 ap. III: Fm d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="3">-3-</normalizedToken>
5; Pt pr and rt 1; Tb d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
0, pr and rt 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="11">-1-1-</normalizedToken>
1, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
2 ap; Mt d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
0, pr and rt 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
2, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
2 ap. IV: Fm d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="2">-2-</normalizedToken>
5; Pt pr and rt 1; Tb d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
0, pr and rt 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="11">-1-1-</normalizedToken>
1, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
2 ap; Mt d 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
0, pr 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
2, rt 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="0">-0-</normalizedToken>
2, v 1
<normalizedToken originalValue="1">-1-</normalizedToken>
2 ap. Coloration: Carapace dark brown, with black eye field, covered with adpressed white scales, more densely on its sides. Carapace with two dorsal longitudinal white stripes. Eye field covered with black shining scales, with no colour pattern (Fig. 20). Clypeus, cheeks and chelicerae brown to dark brown (Fig. 16). Clypeus and cheeks densely covered with white hairs (especially beneath anterior median eyes) (Fig. 28). Hairs around eyes laterally and ventrally white, dorsally black. Abdomen yellow-gray, dorsum dark brown, with thin white hairs. Legs brownish yellow. Metatarsus and tarsus I yellow-brown (Fig. 17). Palps yellow, covered with white hairs, cymbium brown-yellow, covered with brown hairs. Palpal femur with a ventral knob (Fig. 23). Palpal structure as in Figs 21-22, 24-27.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
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sp. n. was hitherto identified as
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. There are two subspecies of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subspecies" species="v-insignitus" subspecies="morulus">Aelurillus v-insignitus morulus</taxonomicName>
(Simon, 1937) from France, and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subspecies" species="v-insignitus" subspecies="obsoletus">Aelurillus v-insignitus obsoletus</taxonomicName>
(
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kulczyński">Kulczynski</normalizedToken>
in Chyzer and
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kulczyński">Kulczynski</normalizedToken>
1891) from Hungary. Simon (1937: p. 1267) commented that in southern France
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would occur together with
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
. This species is a local form and can be distinguished from
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="v-insignitus">Aelurillus v-insignitus</taxonomicName>
by the abdomen and femur coloration (see p. 1227).
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kulczyński">Kulczynski</normalizedToken>
(1891: p. 30) stated that
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and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus v-insignitus" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subspecies" species="v-insignitus" subspecies="obsoletus">Aelurillus v-insignitus obsoletus</taxonomicName>
were similar in the body colouration, but that of the eye field in
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was not adequately visible (&quot;areae huius pictura parum definita&quot;). One of us (GA) tried to find the holotypes of both
<normalizedToken originalValue="Simons">Simon's</normalizedToken>
and
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kulczyńskis">Kulczynski's</normalizedToken>
species but failed. It is most likely that they were lost.
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Aelurillus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aelurillus deltshevi" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="115" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deltshevi">Aelurillus deltshevi</taxonomicName>
sp. n., described here, has the black eye field, without a
<normalizedToken originalValue="“V”">&quot;V&quot;</normalizedToken>
pattern. According to
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kulczyńskis">Kulczynski's</normalizedToken>
picture (1891: plate 1, figs 4
<normalizedToken originalValue="ab">a-b</normalizedToken>
), the tibial apophysis is typical of
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. The TA in
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sp. n. is different as the dorso-lateral branch of the TA in these species is not higher than in
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, and the ventro-lateral branch of the TA is less curved (Figs 24-27).
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(1971)
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described two forms of
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,
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and
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. Both these forms have visible
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pattern on the eye field (
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1971
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: figs 8-10) and a high dorso-lateral tibial apophysis (
<bibRefCitation author="Proszynski, J" journalOrPublisher="Annales zoologici Warszawa" pageId="11" pageNumber="120" pagination="227 - 255" title="Notes on systematics of Salticidae (Arachnida, Aranei). I-VI." volume="28" year="1971">
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1971
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: figs 13, 16, 18-21). The terminal apophyses of the
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and
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forms are also different from those of
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sp. n. (
<bibRefCitation author="Żabka, M" journalOrPublisher="Fauna Polski" pageId="11" pageNumber="120" pagination="1 - 188" title="Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae)." volume="19" year="1997">Żabka 1997</bibRefCitation>
: figs 30-31, 41-42). However, all of them can easily be separated from
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sp. n. by the carapace and clypeal colouration, also by the structure of the embolic division and the shape of the tibial apophysis.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Macedonia, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan (Fig. 1).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="115">
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sp. n. occurs in Macedonia and Bulgaria at the elevations below 500 m a.s.l., while
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has been recorded from the elevations above 500 m a.s.l..
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